ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,902, issued on July 15, was assigned to 1045929 ONTARIO Ltd. (Keswick, Canada).
"Sod handling apparatus" was invented by Gerardus J. Brouwer (Keswick, Canada), Ralph Ratsep (Pefferlaw, Canada), Robert Milwain (Keswick, Canada) and Mathias Marie Gerardus Hendriks (Heythuysen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of stacking sod rolls on a pallet includes operating a sod handling apparatus of a sod harvester to form a plurality of layers of the sod rolls on the pallet. Each layer contains nine sod rolls comprising a row of five sod rolls positioned next to each other, a first pair of sod rolls oriented perpendicular to t...